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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A dream.

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Examples

  • But there always have been dreams that strike us as much more than empty swevening; their starkness seems true in a way that persists even after we wake up, so that for a time it coexists in our minds alongside all the pastel shades of our ambiguous, workaday existence.

    In the Valley of the Shadow James L. Kugel 2011

  • But there always have been dreams that strike us as much more than empty swevening; their starkness seems true in a way that persists even after we wake up, so that for a time it coexists in our minds alongside all the pastel shades of our ambiguous, workaday existence.

    In the Valley of the Shadow James L. Kugel 2011

  • But there always have been dreams that strike us as much more than empty swevening; their starkness seems true in a way that persists even after we wake up, so that for a time it coexists in our minds alongside all the pastel shades of our ambiguous, workaday existence.

    In the Valley of the Shadow James L. Kugel 2011

  • But there always have been dreams that strike us as much more than empty swevening; their starkness seems true in a way that persists even after we wake up, so that for a time it coexists in our minds alongside all the pastel shades of our ambiguous, workaday existence.

    In the Valley of the Shadow James L. Kugel 2011

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